Carleton Watkins

Eadward Muybridge and Cornelius Jabez Hughes, two photographers of the 19th century, introduced revolutionary ideas impacting the way photographs could be taken, categorized, and used. Muybridge, better known as the ‘father of the motion picture,’ studied landscape photos and invented a device that drastically improved their quality. In addition, he helped to pioneer work in the studies of motion and motion-picture projection. Hughes developed new technology related to photography and helped to guide many other amateur photographers into producing better forms of photography. The two had lasting impacts on the growth and importance of photography in the art, science, and everyday realms.

George Eastman invented roll film and an easy to operate camera that made photography easier for anyone to experience photography. He founded the Eastman Kodak Company to manufacture cameras and photographic supplies, making the art of photography available to the masses. This talks about his life and how he came about the inventions that made photography easier for people to use and produce their own photographs.

Albert Bierstadt was one of the greatest landscape artists in history (Albert Bierstadt). His naturalistic landscape scenes of the unsettled American West brought about the need to preserve the land; in 1872, the United States Congress passed the Yellowstone Park Bill therefore creating the first national park in the world (Sierra Nevada). One of Albert Bierstadt more iconic paintings is titled the Sierra Nevada; it was painted in the year 1872. He uses different lines, shows incredible texture, impeccable depth, stunning colors and design in his painting the Sierra Nevada.

Ansel adams and John Davies are both very famous and well known landscape photographers who have very conceptual ideas and techniques in their photography. they are both known for their brilliant black and white landscape photography.

At age 14, Abelardo Morell realizes that he discovers his passion of photography through the photography books or magazines at his uncle 's house. According to the National Geographic

man army, the 55th Regiment of Colored Soldiers. For political reasons out of Washington, the homestead was eventually dismantled.

1853 there was eighty-six documented galleries, which had women and children working in them, really changed the times. Around this time, there were document African American operators which seems counterproductive, as acrimonious slaves would be photographing and documenting the slave trade as well as high profile crime trials of relevancy. Post mortem portraits became prevalent as well as the documentation of the different interesting landscapes, for instance Niagara Falls was shown in the chapter with a group of folks standing in the foreground enjoying the view. The American Daguerrotypists made the sites commonly unseen by most, available. Such a Hawaii, Mexico, Philippines and South America. They were also able to introduce Photography as it was then known to the people of

Born in Britain, emigrated to US early in life, by the 1870s had become a very prominent photographer, mostly photographed nature and animals; very well known

     In the 1880’s, Eakins purchased his first camera during the summer. He had used photographs from the other sources as aids for his painting in the 1870’s, but the acquisition of his own camera inspired a period of intensive investigation of photography as a tool for making art. Eakins made scores of photographs as studies for a group of major paintings, among them Mending the Net, Swimming, and Cowboys in the Bad Lands. He also told students in his academy to take pictures to help them.

This group embodies the concepts of Ansel Adams, and this is what was so distinctive about his work. The realization of photographic vision through technically flawless prints was an approach that Ansel took in photography. But this did not stop experimentation that led him to the use of several large-formats and miniature cameras. to shed some light on the work of Adams, I should point out that he was deeply effected by the nature, especially by the Yosemite valley, and the four hundred mile long mountain range, called Sierra Nevada, where he kept coming back every summer, where he practiced climbing or just took long trips in which a great deal of photography was involved. During these summers, he developed an interest in conservation and was dedicated to record the splendid beauty of these valleys and mountain ranges. So the prominent factor in Ansel’s work was his love of nature, and the

photographs. His most famous work is his "The Brown Sisters" portrait sisters. He has photographed porch life in the rural south, schools

I went to the Spectrum art gallery to go observe the photography. The art gallery displayed the work of two photographers, Jonathan Rollins and Patrick W. Rhames. Jonathan Rollins photography’s theme was eclectic perspective. His photography was both in color and in black and white. Rollins work was also more based on nature, unlike Rhames’ photography. In his photography there were a lot of pictures of National Parks such as, Yellowstone and Yosemite. On the other hand, Patrick W. Rhames photography’s theme was Wandering in Archival Pigment. Rhames. Rhames photography was also in color and in black and white. Although Rhames Photography was also done outdoors, he focused more on objects than nature. For example, he focused on light houses,

The style of Adams has become very well known today, as straightforward shots of nature and landscapes, but he wasn’t originally that way. Adams originally used the style of “pictorial”, which means Adams tried to make the photos seem more like artworks than photographs. In 1930, Ansel Adams met Paul Strand and then switched to Strads style of straight photography,

Adams felt a sense of duty to share his knowledge of nature and photography. “…[Adams] was master teacher as well as a master photographer” (Schaefer, 1992). He wrote many books and taught students his art. Adams technical ability in the darkroom was magical. He set the standard for black and white printing. His discriminating taste and meticulously produced prints continue to amaze current generations twenty-five years after his death. Adams was an experimenter and a modernist with his camera.

Marcus Wicker was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he began his talent in writing. He is now an assistant english professor at University of Southern Indiana. Marcus is a poetry editor for the Southern Indiana Review and is the director of the New Harmony Writers Workshop. He has received multiple poetry awards such as the 2011 Ruth Lilly Fellowship, Pushcart Prize, as well as many recognitions from Poetry, American Poetry Review, Third Coast, Ninth Letter, and more. The young poet has so far made a large impression on the poetry world, especially with his first book, Maybe The Saddest Thing. His book was published in 2012 and selected by D.A Powell for the National Poetry Series. The book is divided into two sections and is filled with a